The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts

St. Paul sharply reproveth those who allowed yet the Jewish Sabbath, i. e. they observed Days, Months, Times, and Years, as if he had bestowed his labour in vain upon them, Gal. 4. 10, 11. But more particularly in his Epistle to the Colossians, Chap. 2. 16, 17. Let no man judg you in respect of an Holy Day, or of the New Moons, or of the Sabbath-Days, which were a Shadow of things to come, but the Body is of Christ. Yet notwithstanding all this care, both of the Apostles in general, and more especially of St. Paul, to suppress this Error, it grew up still, and had its Patrons and Abettors, Ebion and Cerinthus, two of the wretchedest Heretics of the Primitive Times: And after them Apollinarius is said to countenance and defend it; which doubtless made the Ancient Fathers declare themselves fully in it, as a dangerous Point; it seemed to confirm the Jews in their Incredulity, and might occasion others to make question of our Saviour's coming in the Flesh. Hence Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Eusebius, Men of Note in the Primitive Times, affirm, that never any of the Patriarchs before Moses's Law, observed the Sabbath, which question less they must have done had that Law been ⟨p. 14⟩moral, and dictated by the Light of Nature. He cites also Epiphanius and Theodoret on Ezech. 20. Procopius on Gen. 2. Damascene, and our venerable Bede concurring with the former Fathers: All talk, saith he, that the Observation of the Jewish Sabbath vanished utterly, &c: I might mention other Authors to the same purpose. But to proceed, my Brethren, because one of my Arguments against the precise Seventh-day Sabbath, will be to prove it a Sign or Shadow of that Rest Believers enter into when they first close with Christ, I shall say no more now by way of Explanation of my Text, but proceed to those Points of Doctrine that arise herefrom.

St. Paul sharply reproveth those who allowed yet the Jewish Sabbath, i. e. they observed Days, Months, Times, and Years, as if he had bestowed his labour in vain upon them, Gal. 4. 10, 11. But more particularly in his Epistle to the Colossians, Chap. 2. 16, 17. Let no man judg you in respect of an Holy Day, or of the New Moons, or of the Sabbath-Days, which were a Shadow of things to come, but the Body is of Christ. Yet notwithstanding all this care, both of the Apostles in general, and more especially of St. Paul, to suppress this Error, it grew up still, and had its Patrons and Abettors, Ebion and Cerinthus, two of the wretchedest Hereticks of the Primitive Times: And after them Apollinarius is said to countenance and defend it; which doubtless made the Antient Fathers declare themselves fully in it, as a dangerous Point; it seemed to confirm the Jews in their Incredulity, and might occasion others to make question of our Saviour's coming in the Flesh. Hence Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Eusebius, Men of Note in the Primitive Times, affirm, that never any of the Patriarchs before Moses's Law, observed the Sabbath, which question less they must have done had that Law been